Hoover Dam Downtown District. It's another night, different from the ventilated dam crest area, the central area is still as lively at night, after all, this is a safe closed environment, everywhere is a drunken atmosphere, people indulge in all kinds of sensory stimulation, in this way to temporarily forget about the various crises and predicaments outside.

There are also many people who are numb and crouched in the corner, feeling helpless about the future, since the fall of the fortress of Alashid and the rebellion of the Brotherhood of Steel, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to make money, they don't have the courage to go to the dangerous wasteland to find opportunities to earn bottle caps, and they haven't saved enough savings in the good times before, and now they are penniless and don't know what to do.

The weak deputy sergeant, who only talks about it, did little to help the law and order in the central district, and thanks to a small group of NcR soldiers who remained here, the situation did not go for the worst.

Although the situation is not much better now. Andy and the three of them walked here, passing by Dusty's desire again, the store now has several more security guards with guns, and the owner Dusty finally had to pull out the bottle cap and hire a few people to help her maintain order after losing the powerful and free super mutant security guard Beatrice, and the reasons that drove her to do so included the last time Beatrice was in front of the store.

Facts have proved that under the premise that the police are unreliable, it is not enough to rely on only one security guard and a part-time security boss to see this kind of field.

It seems that there is still an endless stream of customers as before, and some guys with strange looks are afraid to secretly buy some illegal drugs that are not allowed to be sold and used at will, such as madness.

There are also people who simply want to get drunk, and then express their emotions and brag indiscriminately.

But there is another type of person who is different from the above, they have a strange smile on their face, they don't look like an addict or an alcoholic.

"I wanted to ask last time, is there some other business in Dusty's desire shop?" Andy turned to Beatrice.

"Yes..... There are a few men and women..... Work in the small room inside .... I don't understand Dusty. Beatrice said this, and that's how she understood it to the best of her ability, but normal people could immediately understand the so-called

What kind of trading activities are going on in the "little room"? With desire comes demand, and apart from diet and addictions, the most appealing thing is the satisfaction of instinctive impulses, which is the same everywhere in the wasteland, at most there is a difference between the upscale clubs of New California and the low-end bars of Hoover Dam.

The trio wandered around for a while, asking some passers-by, but most remained aloof or vigilant, and it seemed impossible to find out where the possible black market might be.

"We've got to ask people to get to the bottom of it... Finding the police must have been in vain, not to mention that the deputy sheriff was an incompetent guy, and if the police knew better, Sheriff Ralph would not have to find an outsider as an informant. Andy passed by a dark corner under a neon light, where there was a stench, garbage and indescribable disgusting things filled the place, and the terrible thing was that there was a guy who seemed to be in a different state at the moment, moaning in his mouth with an incomprehensible moan, and rolling in the things that ordinary people avoid.

"Hell, it's a poisonous insect again." Mark's cheeks twitched, his hands barely left his nose since he came down to the center, and he saw the man try to get up several times, but then rolled back halfway through, as if some invisible force had restrained him.

At this time, Beatrice suddenly made a suggestion slowly.

"Dusty.... Understands everything.... I know a lot of people. Andy immediately paused, yes, the owner of the largest entertainment store in the central area must know all the sources of goods here.

He immediately followed into Dusty's desire shop, intending to talk to the plump woman with dark skin and a large skeleton about this, but as soon as he entered, he saw that there was another commonplace customer dispute in the store.

Two men were arguing there.

"I've made an appointment with my dear Mary to spend the night with me tonight, why would you come out and stop you, a strange fellow?" The thin man had a mustache, a tattered suit, and a strange box in his hand.

"You're the weird one, aren't you? I've given Dusty the bottle cap, and that girl should be mine today! If you talk nonsense with me again, I'm going to beat you up!" The fat bearded man flicked his trouser belt in his left hand, and by the way, raised his right fist and swung it twice in a threatening manner.

Dusty had long been attracted by the sound of the quarrel, and when he saw the situation in front of him, he immediately tried his best to persuade the two to settle the dispute.

"Oh! Oh my God, what's going on? Seeing Dusty, the thin man immediately became even more angry, he stroked his mustache with two fingers, raised an eyebrow and pointed at the fat man, and asked Dusty in a disdainful and questioning tone.

"This fat boy said that he went to Mary and got your permission because you took his bottle cap, you know about it?" Without waiting for Dusty to reply, the fat man couldn't wait to continue his verbal attacks.

"Oh, the answer is, of course, yes, why don't you hurry up and die, you ugly skinny monkey? You don't want to be beaten up and thrown outside in the garbage dump for a night's sleep, do you? I don't care about you! Don't waste my time! Skinny, manly, his face flushed, he could barely speak, and he stammered at Dusty.

"You see.... This..... Damn stupid, how can you make this oolong Daschi? You don't know the consequences? .... You...."Dusty opened his mouth and wanted to speak again, the fat man seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, he arched sharply and tried to force his way to a small room inside, but a guy dressed as a mercenary on the side immediately put an assault rifle on his head, and he had to stop for a while.

After several times of not being taken seriously, Dusty's heart was already on fire, and she glared at the fat man angrily.

"Listen to me! I've said before that you're up to you tonight except for the second room on the right, but don't you know how to count? Isn't that room the second from the right in your opinion? What do you want to do now? I'm telling you..... The shotgun in my hand is shattered, and you guys don't have one or two brains! The fat man was absent-minded at this time, because the door of the second small room on the right had opened a crack for a while, and a delicate girl with long brown shawl hair and white skin like snow quietly glanced outside, and then quickly closed it.

This glance had become incomparably long in the world of fat men, and he had caught a quick glimpse of the girl in the corridor before, but he hadn't seen it clearly, and this time he saw it clearly..... He was sure that no matter what the women in the other rooms looked like, they couldn't be as good as the girl just now.

The blood gradually rushed downward, raising the already impatient temper of this fat man with a strange mouth to a new level.

"Shut up, you chattering old mother, you're just an old bustard! I gave you the bottle cap, and you bitch here should be my pick! Don't nag there endlessly! How much does that skinny monkey give you? I'll give you three times .... No, five times, anyway, I'm going to settle that girl tonight! The scene suddenly fell silent, and some people suddenly began to talk to each other, and the faces of Dusty and the thin man were dark at the moment, especially Dusty, if she went to a place where there was no light outside the store now, I was afraid that it would be directly the effect of optical camouflage.

Half an hour later, Dusty coldly issued an eviction order.

"You're not welcome here, get out of here, don't come back again." The fat man should have sensed that something was wrong, but he was already carried away at the moment, and after hearing Dusty's words, he only felt an evil fire burst out of his stomach and burned all the way to the top of his head.

"What do you say?! Do you know who I am? Do you still want to open your store? Dusty let out a sneer, after so many years of opening the store, she could basically distinguish at a glance the people who needed to be remembered by the permanent population of Hoover Dam City, and treat them in the most appropriate way.

But the person in front of him is definitely not an important person, no matter whether the background color is white or black, at most he is just a small person.

"You don't deserve me to get to know you, and if you talk nonsense, you have to weigh whether you can get out of here alive today, for the sake of the NcR military police, I won't let people die in my store casually, but as you said before, it's a matter of course for a drunk to be thrown into the garbage heap outside, and it's not strange what happened after that, but you deserve it!" The fat man went crazy, and he reached for the gun in his trouser pocket regardless of it, but was knocked to the ground by the security guard with the butt of a gun, but even if he was pressed to the ground, he was still yelling.

"My eldest brother is a toad! If you dare to touch me, you will offend him, and when the time comes, I will see what you will do? How many of the various goods in your small shop are supplied by us, and you don't know yourself? Let me go! Dusty frowned, and his attitude seemed to become a little uncertain, but the thin man with the mustache coughed heavily, and made a few glances at Dusty by the way.

Dusty's face changed, and he looked up to see that the second room on the right had opened a small slit again, and an eye was peeking out from behind.

"Shut his mouth and throw him out." Dusty gave the order, and the two mercenary security guards swarmed up, punched the fat man speechless with three punches and two kicks, and then dragged him out of the store with one foot, and the last one grabbed the foot one by one, and grabbed the fat man in the air like throwing a cement bag not far away, and threw it out heavily.

With a scream, the fat man fell into the filthy garbage heap and rolled into a ball with the poisonous insect that couldn't get up.

"Wait for me!" In the laughter of the crowd, he kicked away the madman and poisonous insect that was entangled like an octopus.

The thin man spread his hands and elegantly carried the box into the second room on the right, and soon some laughter came from inside.

Dusty leaned against the counter a little worried, but Andy suddenly came over.

"Oh, it's you.... And Beatrice, you're abandoning the benefactor who took you in the first place, huh..... Don't think I've forgotten about this, you, the kid who took my security guard to come to my store will have to pay more, and the tables and chairs that were broken last time will also be counted on your head! Dusty said this angrily, leaving Beatrice speechless, and Mark next to him was a little embarrassed.

"Alright Dusty, it's almost fine, don't be insatiable. How much has Beatrice helped you, how much money has been saved for you, and how much has you been able to equalize, and you don't know how much you have done? But she can't even eat enough meat from you, even if you took her in at the beginning, it can be said that it is even out now! Andy nodded approvingly at Mark, and then asked Dusty what he wanted to ask.

"That guy mentioned the toad just now.... Who do you know that man? Where is he? ”